Word: spaciously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Girl Friend. The movement for smaller and smarter musical comedies which various producers have contemplated since Sunny eliminated competition in the more spacious field, has at last unearthed a good one. The Girl Friend is not guaranteed unconditionally, but it offers a consistently agreeable display. It has good music and unquestionably the best lyrics in town. It has a sound enough set of jokes and more than the usual allotment of brisk dancing. Eva Puck and Sam White, vaudeville favorites, are the featured entertainers. They too, if not supreme, are soundly satisfactory. They tell the story of a chicken-rancher...
Last week he escaped from "No. 10" to "Chequers," the spacious country house which the British Government provides as an antidote to Downing Street. There he entertained the famed Berkeley Hunt at a sumptuous breakfast set out upon long tables, whistled the Berkeley pack about him, genially called many a canine by name...
...like caddy hire,* new balls, refreshments, etc., etc. The company will warm his golfing cockles. Two such trips have been arranged for by Charles Stewart, Cunard's Boston man, himself a linksman. He has visited all the courses of note that will be used, stubbly St. Andrews, rainy Troon, spacious Gleneagles, lovely Muirfield, and found them universally anxious to welcome George Hiram. One boat will sail May 29, the other June...
...Manhattan baby was the U. S. automobile industry, swaddled for its first show. The 31 cars exhibited came so far from filling the spacious Garden that an oval track was erected on the floor, around which the "horseless carriages" chug-chugged through their nursery paces to the mixed distrust and astonishment of gaping throngs. Up on the roof a demonstration "hill" was constructed, and here many an adventurous blood with money to spend had the ride that sold him his first motor...
...luncheon in question was a somewhat unique affair. The invitation list included, not the usual long-haired admirers of communism but some of the most eminent, not to say hardboiled, bankers of Wall Street. The luncheon was held in the spacious Bankers' Club behind closed doors...